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The doubting believer, or, A treatiseThe doubting beleever, or, A treatise
The doubting believer, or, A treatise containing 1. the nature, 2. the kinds, 3. the springs, 4. the remedies of doubtings, incident to weak believers by Obadiah Sedgwick ...The doubting beleever, or, A treatise containing 1. the nature, 2. the kinds, 3. the springs, 4. the remedies of doubtings, incident to weak beleevers by Obadiah Sedgwick ...
London: printed by M.F. for Thomas Nicols, 1641
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The particular Cures.
1. Natural corruption was 1the first spring of Doubtings, and Mortification is the first help and remedy: That is the Disease, and this is the Cure. I may say that of our faith, which the Apostle speaks of our persons, Rom. 8. 13. If ye 2through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. The more our sins do die in us, the more our faith will live in us. We are diseased men, (take us in our best condition) 3and you know the more any disease doth lose of its strength, the more doth our health rise up and thrive: and so we are as a garden which hath many plants, and several weeds, the abating of these, the rooting up, and killing of these contributes the greater relief and strengthening to our plants.
1. Naturall corruption was 1the first spring of Doubtings, and Mortification is the first help and remedy: That is the Disease, and this is the Cure. I may say that of our faith, which the Apostle speaks of our persons, Rom. 8. 13. If yee 2through the Spirit do mortifie the deeds of the body, ye shall live. The more our sinnes doe die in us, the more our faith will live in us. We are diseased men, (take us in our best condition) 3and you know the more any disease doth lose of its strength, the more doth our health rise up and thrive: and so we are as a garden which hath many plants, and severall weeds, the abating of these, the rooting up, and killing of these contributes the greater reliefe and strengthning to our plants.